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It will need some insulation, indeed. The lid is just a thin piece of plastic, whilst the body is kind of semi insulated. I'm planning on making a proper lid with ply, polystyrene, insulation and shiny camping material and then also wrapping the whole thing up with more insulation. I think I'll...

Bit of a thread resurrection but better than starting a new one :D My AG kit is coming together and this morning, just as I was about to buy an Ebay-sourced cooler for conversion to mash tun I had a bit of a brainwave. Stuck at the back of my garden shed is a large, wheeled, plastic container...

Great! When the current county season finishes in March I'll come along. In the meantime it'd be good to meet up, we might even know each other :D - I was a very young landlord of the Sun Inn as was back in '93 - '95, and my last pub before I gave up that game was the Barley Mow in...

Superb :thumb: Just bought this 65 litre stock pot: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110639870281&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_500wt_755 Just got to fit a tap to it. Thanks for the advice guys!

Just seen this - I live in Towcester! But I play squash on Thursdays... when's the next meeting?

Hey all - I am currently happily supping my way through some Woodfordes kits by way of reintroduction to the wonders of home brewing (they're not bad at all) but I'm getting stuff together to go AG. Now: I want to use a large ally stock pot as my kettle. 60/70 litres in size, as I think I'll...

Just ask your local boozer to keep aside all the Magners or Bulmers bottles that they'd otherwise be chucking into the bin or recycling. They'll be free and ideal in terms of size and strength.

That's a dangerous analogy :D

Do you bottle-condition it? And if so, how long is optimum? I want a couple of decent batches ready for the summer months, so am prepared to do them good and early if necessary.

I'm interested in this. Lager was all I used to do in my previous brewing life, but now I've come back to it I am primarily an ale drinker so that's what I'll concentrate on brewing. However I'd like to find a lager kit that is really worth making. My intention is to brew the first batch in...

That's the kind of thing I wanted to hear :D Even with kits?

Hi there :thumb: Thought I'd say hi before I started to bombard everyone with daft questions :grin: I used to do a lot of brewing in the late eighties and early nineties as a teenager/student. Used to do pilsener lager kits and whilst I got very efficient at it, it was always an acquired...